SafetyAtWorkBlog is an award-winning blog written in Australia that reports on, and discusses, a range of issues that relate to workplace safety. These articles touch on Human Resources, Industrial Relations, stress, politics, organisational culture, workplace death, gender, and a large number of issues that affect how we work and how we manage our workers and our leaders.
This episode examines Victoria’s new Royal Commission into the integrity of major construction projects, arguing that occupational health and safety must be treated as more than a compliance phrase or political shield. I explore how safety can be used, ignored or manipulated across procurement, government contracts, builders and unions, and ask whether the inquiry will confront the shared responsibility behind unsafe or unethical practices in the construction sector.
For the full article with quotes and references, subscribe at www.safetyatworkblog.com. If you like what you hear, consider engaging Kevin as an OHS advisor or writer.
3 Sept 2026
SAWB - BHP Annual Report
This commentary offers a critical look at BHP’s latest Annual Report, exploring how the company presents safety, how it buries sexual harassment data in its Sustainability chapter, and why psychosocial hazards deserve to sit alongside traditional injury metrics. It reflects on the cultural challenges of retrofitting modern OHS expectations into a 141 year old organisation, questions the effectiveness of BHP’s prevention claims, and argues for greater transparency, stronger contractor oversight and genuine cultural leadership across Australia’s mining sector.
For the full article with quotes and references, subscribe at www.safetyatworkblog.com . If you like what you hear, consider engaging Kevin as an OHS advisor or writer.
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19 Aug 2026
SAWB - Concussion and CTE in Sports
This episode examines concussion, chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), duty of care and occupational health and safety in Australian sport, drawing on many SafetyAtWorkBlog articles about the AFL, Nick Lowden, player welfare, junior football, contact training, compensation and the limits of “awareness” as a safety response. It asks whether professional sport should be treated more clearly as work, whether repeated head impacts are a foreseeable workplace hazard, and what sporting bodies must do when prevention may require changing the game itself.
For the full article with quotes and references, subscribe at www.safetyatworkblog.com . If you like what you hear, consider engaging Kevin as an OHS advisor or writer.
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